"The Alliance has demonstrated its experience in SRHR."
Interview with Agathe Blanc, program manager at AFJCI (Association of Women Lawyers of Côte d'Ivoire) and spokesperson for Alliance Droits et Santé in the SRHR coalition of the Generation Equality Forum.
Mobilizing governments and civil society in French-speaking West Africa
Equipop advocates for the adoption of feminist public policies at the national and international levels. With this in mind, Equipop has campaigned for the Generation Equality Forum (GEF) to result in ambitious financial commitments, particularly in favor of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), the fight against gender-based violence, and other issues.
After the Generation Equality Forum
A total of $40 billion for gender equality was announced in Paris in early July 2021, including $23 billion from governments. This impressive aggregate figure will remain an abstraction unless each individual commitment is fulfilled.
Amplifying feminist voices
In West Africa, as in other parts of the world, we are witnessing a renewal of the fight for gender equality, with the emergence of young feminist voices linking new repertoires of action to historic struggles for women's rights.
– I am alive thanks to the sorority.
Palwasha arrived in France with her mother Anissa at the end of August, shortly after the Taliban took Kabul in Afghanistan. Due to their activism, particularly in support of women's rights, both women were under serious threat. Their evacuation was made possible thanks to a wave of […]
– The Fondemsan grant: Equipop's role in the West Africa project
Since 2017, Equipop has been working with OOAS to roll out the FONDEMSAN grant, which supports citizen and political mobilization initiatives promoting the sexual and reproductive rights and health of adolescents and young people in French-speaking West Africa. Elise Petitpas, Program Manager at Equipop, provides an update!
Fondemsan Niger: Lawali Amadou reflects on the innovative nature of Round 1
Interview with Lawali Amadou, project manager, Jama’a Jar (Round 1) in Niger, who kindly agreed to answer a few questions we asked him. In this exchange, he discusses the innovative nature of the project, the changes it has brought about, and the challenges it faces.
– Human rights: making change happen!
Equipop and the Human Rights for All collective are joining forces on International Human Rights Day, December 10, 2021. We are organizing a digital dialogue, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., between representatives of various institutions to facilitate the shift towards the use of non-discriminatory language. We will take as a particularly significant example the abandonment [...]
– World AIDS Day: for a feminist approach!
On December 1, World AIDS Day, associations are unanimous: the COVID-19 pandemic is jeopardizing the progress made in the fight against HIV/AIDS, particularly in terms of testing. At the same time, this crisis is exacerbating gender-based inequalities and violence. All these issues […]
– November 20 march: the fight against gender-based and sexual violence, a political issue
As they have done every year for more than twenty years, feminist associations and networks around the world will mobilize at the end of November to denounce gender-based and sexual violence. In France, the demonstration will take on particular significance, five months before the presidential election and with more than 100 femicides already committed in 2021. Here is […]